Improvement in meat-tenderers



J. W. SMITH.

MEAT-TENDERER. 1731142.

FI'TL l IF- I i ".PETEB, FHOID-UTHOGQAPHER, WASH NGTON D c Patented Feb. 8, 1876 IUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN w. .SMITH, or KE KUK, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT m MEAT-T'ENDER'ERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,142, dated February 8,1876; application filed December 21, 1875.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. SMITH, of Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa, have made'a new and useful invention of Improved Tenderer, which is made substantially as set forth hereinafter, referringto the accompanying drawings, in which-+- Figure I is a vertical section of a-portion of apparatus. Fig. 11 is a vertical section at right angles to Fig. I, each taken upon the dotted line shown in the other. Fig. III shows apart in lines across each other, with a moving table, G, upon which the material to be acted on is spread and run under the rollers back and forth till it is acted upon and tendered sufficiently.

The apparatus is operated by crank O at-- tached to roller B. This roller bears at one end a gear-wheel, E. This meshes with a rack, F, attached to the table 0, so as to move' The roller'A bears 4 the. table back and forth. a like gear-wheel, which meshes in like manner with rack F, so as to be driven thereby from crank O, and so that both rollers will turn in one direction and with the movement of the table 0.

The table has a raised edge, P, to keep the material clear of the gearing, and a sliding bearing, G, on each edge, upon which it moves back and forth on fixed waysH overa stationary-table, K,'towhich the uprights D D are attached.

'On table K are two fixed stops, M N, one

on each' side of the center, and out of line with each other. And the table 0 has stops L on each end, each of which has a passageway cut in it to pass freely over one of the stops M N These are arranged'so that the table 0 may be run through from each sidemore than half way, so that the end will be stopped against the stop on that' sitle while passing freely over the other. This enables the entire surface of the table to be run entirely under both rollers, and to free the material eniirely from both.

The rollers are made, one or both, with zigzagribs, although for simplicity I often make one or both with straight ribs. ,These zigzag ribs are arranged parallel,.either around (as shown in Fig. [[I) or along the roller. These act so that, by changingthe position ot' the material slightly on the table 0, each time it is run through, the ribs indent notonly in new places, but in lines across the previous ones. Either roller with zigzag ribs maybe used alone and produce thus the desired result.

I claim- The combination, in a tenderer, of the rollers A and B, ribbedlongitudinally and annularly respectively, the slidingtable O, haring raised edge P, and the stationary table K, having stops M and N adapted to engage with recesses in sliding table 0, substantially as set v forth. I v

JOHN W. SMITH.

Witnesses:

SAML. J. WALLACE, W. J GOGHRAN. 

